Random Internet Things From The Internet 35

A recurring feature in which I present a collection of miscellaneous crap err, interesting things to look at that I have lovingly and carefully curated for your enjoyment. For some of these entries, I may have spent upwards of several minutes cutting and pasting a URL and possibly I have thought of a partially original sentence to accompany it. I hope you appreciate my efforts.

On the previous installment of RITFTI, I posted a picture of my first gaming system, the RCA Studio II. Well, I was just randomly thinking about my first real home computer, the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, shown here with an absurd configuration of peripherals sticking out of the expansion port (here’s a radio essay I made about my TI back in 2009). Perusing the TI’s profile page over on oldcomputers.net, I’m shocked SHOCKED I TELL YOU to see that the screen resolution was 192×256. That’s only this big —->
Actual size! It’s so teeny! This is the closest I’ve come to confronting my own mortality. The 16 colors didn’t do it. The 16K of RAM didn’t do it. It’s the screen resolution. The screen resolution has forced me to come to terms with my own eventual death. I am old. I can feel the calcium spiriting out of my bones now. The yawning dirt hole beckons. Beyond, only silence.